Author: Bookworm

An update on how my planned move is going….

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Bookworm

In the old days, you piled your meager belongings in a covered wagon and you were off. Nowadays, the logistics are a bit more complicated. Once upon a time, moving in America was hard because there was a good chance you could die en route from disease, accidents, or unpleasant

It’s time to confess: I am sometimes racist and homophilic

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Bookworm

I try not to use race or sexuality as a filter for viewing people, but I have inordinate respect for blacks and LGBT people who come out as conservatives. My confession today has to start with the fact that I’m a coward. I was raised by parents who were deeply

What the double endorsement at the New York Times tells us

Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Bookworm

Faced with a field of highly defective Democrat candidates, the New York Times hides behind identity politics to endorse two seriously flawed women. Yesterday, the New York Times came in for a good deal of both criticism and laughter when it endorsed not one but two candidates: Elizabeth Warren and

Dalia al-Aqidi: Patriotic Minneapolis Muslims have a candidate

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Bookworm

This is a knock-your-socks-off campaign video from Dalia al-Aqidi, an Iraqi Muslim woman who is fighting to win Ilhan Omar’s House seat. Because my parents lived in the Middle East, we had lots of Arab friends, both Muslim and Christian, when I was a child. Whatever their views were about

An apology if my blogging is a bit erratic

Posted on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by Bookworm

My blogging might be (probably already is) a bit erratic over the coming couple of weeks, but it’s all for a very happy reason (but tiring) reason. I decided that I’d better apologize in advance for the fact that, over the next two weeks, the pace of my blogging will

Bookworm Beat 1/17/20 — the Dems are going bat poop crazy illustrated edition

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Bookworm

When I looked at my pictures, I realized the unifying theme is that Dems are going crazy on everything: Iran, Elections, Impeachment, and Social Issues.

Missouri governor Eric Greitens was a training ground for attacking Trump

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Bookworm

Can former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens recover his reputation from a Soros-backed political attack that was a warm-up for going after Trump? I remember when Eric Greitens first appeared on the Missouri political scene. I liked him. He was competent, as shown by his being a Navy SEAL; he was

Q and pedophiles: I’ve been seeing the dots for a while. Did my friend just provide the lines? UPDATED

Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 by Bookworm

A discussion with a friend about “Q” dovetailed perfectly with my awareness that we have lately been inundated by reports about pedophiles. It’s not just Jeffrey Epstein. Long before Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve been aware of a rising tide of stories about pedophiles. I’ve had all sorts of questions. Is this

Bookworm Beat 1/12/20 — the “I don’t have answers, I only have questions edition”

Posted on January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by Bookworm

Reading through the news, I see that most of the news is so crazy, it doesn’t inform me; it just leaves me with questions that I’ll now share with you. I’ve mentioned before a game I play with a friend. He reads me headlines and asks me to guess whether

The transgender movement shows that our media, not our government, is Orwellian

Posted on January 12, 2020January 13, 2020 by Bookworm

There is a grave danger that, if our media gets us to believe the big lie behind the transgender movement, it can get us to believe anything. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. … The implied objective of this line of thought is a

My opinion on Harry’s and Meghan’s divorce from the Royal family UPDATED

Posted on January 11, 2020January 13, 2020 by Bookworm

If only Harry and Meghan, whey they complete their divorce from the royal family, would follow Edward III and Wallis Simpson, and sink into deserved oblivion Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I would have cared deeply about what’s been going on in England. I grew up

Dershowitz shows that, for some Democrats, it’s impossible to give up the faith

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Bookworm

Alan Dershowitz’s fealty to the Democrat party, even as it betrays him and his core principles, reveals that the party is a faith, not a political system. I listened to Alan Dershowitz’s interview on Friday’s Derek Hunter podcast. The interview’s purpose was for Dershowitz to discuss his new book, Guilt

Yuuuuge crowd lining up for the Trump rally in Toledo, Ohio

Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 by Bookworm

Hillary won Toledo, Ohio, in 2016, and maybe the “Watch this Space” Dem can do so again in 2020, but this line for the Trump rally should worry Democrats. You have to watch these amazing videos of red-capped people lining up in chilly weather for the chance to attend one

Bookworm Beat 1/8/20 — the Iran kerfuffle illustrated edition

Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 by Bookworm

I’ve entitled this illustrated edition the “Iran kerfuffle,” because Trump’s brilliant policies and statesmanship have brought us further from, not closer to, war.

Further thoughts about the situation in Iran